![It's a painful ordeal waiting for a new album from your favourite band. It's even more torturous when the band promised that new album years ago. The following 10 bands have dangled the prospect of new material in our faces, before repeatedly snatching it away. Curse them.]()
It's a painful ordeal waiting for a new album from your favourite band. It's even more torturous when the band promised that new album years ago. The following 10 bands have dangled the prospect of new material in our faces, before repeatedly snatching it away. Curse them.
![The Avalanches: The Avalanches have been working on the follow-up to their 2000 debut, Since I Left You, for at least a decade now. In 2007, they said,]()
The Avalanches: The Avalanches have been working on the follow-up to their 2000 debut, Since I Left You, for at least a decade now. In 2007, they said, "It's so fuckin' party you will die." Perhaps they're genuinely concerned about fans dying, because it's been eight years since they said that, and it's still not materialised. Darren Seltmann left the band in 2014, and the band's label reiterated, "Album sounds awesome, but there's no dates or anything planned. The official line is 'stay tuned'."
![The Cure: Robert Smith has been strangely dismissive of the supposedly forthcoming companion piece to 2008's 4:13 Dream. Though 4:14 Scream was scheduled to appear in 2014, Smith told XFM that he wasn't keen on putting out an album]()
The Cure: Robert Smith has been strangely dismissive of the supposedly forthcoming companion piece to 2008's 4:13 Dream. Though 4:14 Scream was scheduled to appear in 2014, Smith told XFM that he wasn't keen on putting out an album "made by a band that no longer exists." He added, "I don't feel such a strong urge, really, to beat people over the head with new stuff."
![Jay Electronica: It's been eight years now since the hip hop musician released his musical composition Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge) on MySpace, and received significant attention in the process. And yet, he's still yet to release his debut album. It's got a name - Act II: Patents of Nobility (the Turn) - and three years ago, he released the tracklisting, but it still hasn't appeared. He's been dropping the occasional new track here and there, but there's no word on when the whole album will drop.]()
Jay Electronica: It's been eight years now since the hip hop musician released his musical composition Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge) on MySpace, and received significant attention in the process. And yet, he's still yet to release his debut album. It's got a name - Act II: Patents of Nobility (the Turn) - and three years ago, he released the tracklisting, but it still hasn't appeared. He's been dropping the occasional new track here and there, but there's no word on when the whole album will drop.
![Tool: As the ten-year anniversary of 2006's 10,000 Days creeps ever closer, there's still no sign of its follow-up. Progress was stymied by a labyrinthine, multi-level lawsuit that began when a friend of Adam Jones claimed that he had created artwork for the group, for which he wanted to take credit.]()
Tool: As the ten-year anniversary of 2006's 10,000 Days creeps ever closer, there's still no sign of its follow-up. Progress was stymied by a labyrinthine, multi-level lawsuit that began when a friend of Adam Jones claimed that he had created artwork for the group, for which he wanted to take credit. "It's costing millions and millions and millions of dollars to defend us," Jones explained. "And the fans are all going, 'We want a new Tool album. What the fuck?' And you don't want to pull people into your problems, because they don't understand."
![Lauryn Hill: The former Fugees singer released one brilliant solo album, The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, and one less well-received, less well-defined live album for MTV. Then, there was over a decade of silence. In 2013, she released controversial new single 'Neurotic Society (Compulsory Mix)', which drew criticism by seeming to link societal decay to LGBT movements. She denied this, and was due to release a new album after signing with Sony. The album never came, after progress was halted by a brief stint in prison.]()
Lauryn Hill: The former Fugees singer released one brilliant solo album, The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, and one less well-received, less well-defined live album for MTV. Then, there was over a decade of silence. In 2013, she released controversial new single 'Neurotic Society (Compulsory Mix)', which drew criticism by seeming to link societal decay to LGBT movements. She denied this, and was due to release a new album after signing with Sony. The album never came, after progress was halted by a brief stint in prison.
![Hole: The 90s grunge band originally split up in 2002. In 2009, Courtney Love]()
Hole: The 90s grunge band originally split up in 2002. In 2009, Courtney Love "reformed" the band without any of its original members, and released an album, Nobody's Daughter. She's since spoken of her regret over this decision: "I kind of cheapened the name, even though I'm legally allowed to use it. I should save Hole for the lineup everybody wants to see and had the balls to put Nobody's Daughter under my own name." Last year, she told interviewers that a reunion with the band's original members was in the pipeline, and that she was writing new material. The reunion hasn't happened. Yet.
![Joanna Newsom: Five years on from the release of her third album, Have One On Me, and three years since she performed two new songs live - 'The Diver's Wife' and 'Look And Despair' - and Joanna Newsom fans are still waiting for a new album to appear.]()
Joanna Newsom: Five years on from the release of her third album, Have One On Me, and three years since she performed two new songs live - 'The Diver's Wife' and 'Look And Despair' - and Joanna Newsom fans are still waiting for a new album to appear. "I'm working on something new," she told Dazed seven months ago. "I should hopefully have a little more news soon. I've been working hard for a lot of those five years on a new idea." What is your definition of soon, Joanna?
![Metallica: In 2013, five years after the release of Death Magnetic, Lars Ulrich said, regarding the band's upcoming album,]()
Metallica: In 2013, five years after the release of Death Magnetic, Lars Ulrich said, regarding the band's upcoming album, "We'll see where it goes. It would stun me if the record came out in 2013." It didn't. Nor did it come out in 2014. To be quite honest with you, 2015 isn't looking too promising either.
![Adele: There was a three year gap between Adele's 2008 debut and its follow-up. In those three years though, she was a moderately successful UK singer and there was only a fairly modest pool of fans who were eagerly awaiting what she'd produce next. What she produced next was 21, and with that, everything changed. We don't need to fill you in on its success, but suffice it to say that the four years of almost complete silence from the singer since 2011 has been torturous. Last year, on the eve of her 26th birthday, Adele tweeted,]()
Adele: There was a three year gap between Adele's 2008 debut and its follow-up. In those three years though, she was a moderately successful UK singer and there was only a fairly modest pool of fans who were eagerly awaiting what she'd produce next. What she produced next was 21, and with that, everything changed. We don't need to fill you in on its success, but suffice it to say that the four years of almost complete silence from the singer since 2011 has been torturous. Last year, on the eve of her 26th birthday, Adele tweeted, "Bye bye 25... See you again later in the year." SHE LIED.
![Brand New: In a 2012 interview, Brand New's Jesse Lacey announced that the band had been working on new material, and had studio time booked for April of that year. A year later, they cancelled their European tour and Reading and Leeds appearances due to]()
Brand New: In a 2012 interview, Brand New's Jesse Lacey announced that the band had been working on new material, and had studio time booked for April of that year. A year later, they cancelled their European tour and Reading and Leeds appearances due to "insurmountable personal issues." A few months later, Derrick Sherman left the band, and they fell quiet. Over the past few months though, they've been teasing new songs - so fingers crossed the wait is nearly over.